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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Episode 107 Casting On and Binding Off

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Note from last week’s show: Boneyard in Champaign-Urbana
IL.It is a creek. Boneyard Creek

Events

Vogue Knitting Live!Chicago IL Palmer House.October 25-27, 2012

Knitting Pipeline
RetreatApril 26-27, 2013 with
optional loosely structured day on April 25th.Signups will be announced in a few months.

Nature Notes

Today is an Indian Summer Day.We’ve had some light frosts, not really
killing frost, but enough to turn the basil black if it had not been covered. The
view outside my window is dramatically different than it was last week.Almost all of the trees except for the
majestic oaks have lost their leaves.The woods are carpeted in the fading tones of yellow, orange, and red
leaves.

This morning when I was returning from my walk in the
misting rain I saw a hawk flying into the woods.I keep wondering how birds can fly through a
dense woods without running into branches.Think of it.We cannot run easily
through a woods without getting snagged by branches, thorns, and twigs.I would probably run head first into a
tree.A hawk is a big bird, I think this
one was a Cooper’s Hawk, and yet they negotiate the branches and trunks of
trees in the woods without seeming to slow down.We see whole flocks of birds fly straight
through the woods and not a one seems to collide with anything.How do they do it?

Butterfly by D.H. Lawrence

Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, strong beyond the
garden-wall!

Butterfly, why do you settle on my shoe, and sip the
dirt on my shoe,

Lifting your veined wings, lifting them? big white
butterfly!

Already it is October, and the wind blows strong to
the sea

from the hills where snow must have fallen, the wind
is polished with snow.

Here in the garden, with red geraniums, it is warm, it is
warm

but the wind blows strong to sea-ward,white butterfly,
content on my shoe!

Will you go, will you go from my warmhouse?

Will you climb on your big soft wings,black-dotted, as up an invisible rainbow, an arch

Giveaway for Cast On Bind Off by Cap Sease book.Leave a comment in the prize thread in our Knitting Pipeline Group on
Ravelry (not the thread for the episode, there will be a separate thread for
the giveaway.)

I’m off to Vogue Knitting Live in 12 hours!Have to pack.Thanks for listening and for checking out the blog.

2 comments:

~Nancy/Aizome
said...

It's great to hear you back again, Paula. (Hadn't had a chance to say that yet!) Thanks for all you share. As for the birds flying thru woods, I have only one thought--God-given instinct. We heard the owl--exciting! Did you wear a striped Ellison Bay to Bishop Hill Fiber? Beautiful. Glad to hear the KP retreat will be in April--no snow!

Paula, I always learn something listening to your wonderful podcast. I never knew Indian Summer was after the first frost. Your shawls are beautiful. Thanks for the pictures. Looking forward to the Ellison Bay KAL.